A second-handed grocery trading platform for Bellevue Households.
G-Cart is a second-handed grocery trading product that is designed to reduce food waste due to irrational shopping plan and limited home tools for food waste recycling. We Team 21, as a team of 3, spend 10 weeks on investigating, requirements grooming, ideation, prototyping and evaluating this product.
We have three team members with different backgrounds representing technology, design and business. I mainly took charge of user experience design during the completion of G-Cart
Our investigation process includes three main methodology:
Desktop/Secondary Research Field Study Online Survey
Desktop Research
We perform online data research using google search and google scholar. According to related research data, we found 31% food loss is at the retail and consumer levels, corresponding to approximately $161 billion worth of food. 43% of food waste comes from households (RTS, 2022). Individuals have become one of the biggest factors that affect the food waste problem.
Moreover, food waste accounts for about 8% of total human-generated carbon emissions, making it a major contributor to global warming. Such a problem has a great impact on the global environment.
However, though a severe urgent issue it is, the existing solution failed to figure it successfully. Each year, 108 billion pounds of food is wasted in the United States. That equates to 130 billion meals and more than $408 billion in food thrown away each year. 40% of all food in America is wasted.